Day: September 19, 2017

Conservative critics of Obamacare are like a guy at a party looking to score. After striking out with prettier women, and the night getting later, even Lindsey Graham starts looking attractive. Republicans in the Senate have for earlier bills to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That means the only remaining…

Former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton admitted that she wouldn’t “completely rule out questioning the legitimacy” of the presidential election’s results if the ongoing probe into Russia’s election interference reaps further results during an interview with NPR’s “Fresh Air” that aired Monday. Clinton has not been shy about discussing…

Tennessee has been bitten by the injury bug pretty hard this year and it looks like it has struck yet again. Senior linebacker Cortez McDowell is reportedly going to be out indefinitely with a wrist injury…

TULLAHOMA, Tennessee – Heidi Newfield and Keith Burns, the duo that makes up Trick Pony, endorsed State Representative Judd Matheny for the 6th District of U.S. Congress, during a fund raising event held at the Blue Gill Grill on Tim’s Ford Lake in Tullahoma Monday evening. The public support…

Shiver me timbers, mateys – it’s International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day! How better to celebrate than to head on over to your nearest participating Long John Silvers and get yourself a Deep Fried Twinkie? We first heard about Talk Like a Pirate Day back in 2002. But it turns out, its history…

On Monday, the Andy Ogles for U.S. Senate campaign announced that it has hired Innovative Politics, which “played a key role” in the Donald J. Trump for President campaign advertising team following the Republican National Convention in the 2016 general election campaign. The firm is “a nationally renowned political consulting…

Roy Moore holds an 8 percentage point lead over Sen. Luther Strange in their special election GOP runoff race in Alabama, according to a new survey released Monday. The JMC Analytics survey shows the primary race has tightened, but that Mr. Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme…

by Jeffrey A. Rendall It’s often said folks learn a lot more from their failures than from their successes; if that’s the case then congressional Republicans should be virtual Rhodes Scholars by now. Judging by the degree of hysteria emanating from party members last week after Democrat leaders announced the…

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), supposedly a nonpartisan government agency that analyzes budget proposals and the economy, has been an aggressive critic of President Donald Trump’s agenda. On Thursday, the CBO released a report warning a move being weighed by the Trump administration would speed up the implosion of the…

Improved security has made it harder than ever to illegally cross into the U.S. from Mexico, and Border Patrol agents are catching a higher percentage of those who try, according to a new report from the Department of Homeland Security. The report from the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics used…